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Taranaki Daily News, 4 June 1917, Page 4

ANOTHER, WMbY. Germany is paying a dear price for its i violation of the laws of nations—and of humanity—by its unrestricted submarine policy. The immediate result was the entrance into the lists of the United States, the greatest of all neutrals. Now, Brazil has annulled its declaration cf neutrality, which may be taken as a preliminary to an announcement that it is joining the States in active opposition to Germany. Brazil is the greatest of the southern republics, and is in a position to give material assistance to the Allies, not only in respect to foodstuffs and shipping but in men. The Government of Brazil has always been favorable to Britain and France. Brazil was peopled originally by settlers from Portugal, a country with whom the .British have always been on friendly terms. The Monroe doctrine, which has had the active support of Britain, has preserved Brazil as it has many of the other. South American republics from invasion by Germany. Brazil was regarded as a choice morsel by the avaricious Teutons long before the war. Colonics of Germans, looking to present requirements of the German Government, wore planted in South Brazil, as they were m Chile, when it wts found that tee millions of German immigrants poured into the United States were unable to affect, save in a very limited degree, the civilisation already rooted, not only in the institutions of that nation, but in the hearts of its people. Although nope of substituting the German for the English language was given up, finally, in the Middle Western States, in tho 'Bo's, there remained a belief in Berlin, fostered doubtless by Germans in the United States, with whom the wish was father to the thought, that in the event of a conflict such*as Germany had in view since tiio accession of tho present Emperor, tho German influence would be powerful enough to sway the sentiment of the Republic. ' That the hopes of Berlin were illusive, so far as the United States w concerned, is now common knowledge. The expectation of a German uprising in the United States failed as completely as the expectation of an effective Irish rebellion, a Canadian secession, or a Mexican invasion across tho Rio Grande. Colonised Brazil has also proved a disappointment. And if Brazil could not be controlled, what, it may be asked, is t6 be in Chilo, where the planting lias been done with marks as well as with men? And if Chile fails to respond eventually, what ground will there be for hoping that the German bankers of Mexico City can dominate Carranza or displace him with a dictator of their own choosing? It is becoming more and more obvious that the Hun schemes for the Tcutonising of the Western world, as well as the Eastern, have altogether miscarried.